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Biko

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Bi·ko  (bk), Steven Bantu 1946-1977.
South African political activist who led an anti-apartheid movement that urged all South African Blacks to disassociate themselves from white and multiracial culture. He was killed in prison by South African police.

Biko [ˈbiːkəʊ]
n
(Biko, Steven Bantu (1946-1977) M, South African, POLITICS: civil-rights leader) Steven Bantu, known as Steve. 1946-77, Black South African civil rights leader: founder of the South African Students Organization. His death in police custody caused worldwide concern


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She read Steve Biko, I Write What I Like and poet Wally Serote, What's in this Black 'Shit'.
The lecture was organised in memory of Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist and leader of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement, who died in apartheid prison on September 12, 1977.
They were sponsored by several housing associations, including CDS, LHT, Steve Biko and Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
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